Preface and introduction to EMF 27

Preface: Introduction to Special Issue

Demands for flexibility, greater variety of products, and advanced production processes complicate the logistics and planning of manufacturing systems; this also increases the number of alternatives that should be formalized in a model. The evaluation of all the possible alternatives of the planning problem is often considered an NP-hard combinatorial problem. Practical problems often contain n...

Preface and Introduction

Preface and Introduction

The discipline of statistical genetics is highly computational. Be it exact computational methods, simulation based, or a hybrid of the two, computational packages are indispensable tools and constant companions of researchers in the field. This handbook is intended to provide human geneticists and other biomedical researchers with guidance on selections of appropriate computational methods and...

Preface and introduction

and Technology (ARIST) and the first under my editorship. Readers who are new to ARIST and interested in its purpose and evolution may wish to visit the Web site hosted on the homepage of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), the parent organization (http://www.asis. org/Publications/ARIST/index.html). For the last twentyfive years ARIST has been expertly edited b...

Preface and Introduction

The discipline of statistical genetics is highly computational. Be it exact computational methods, simulation based, or a hybrid of the two, computational packages are indispensable tools and constant companions of researchers in the field. This handbook is intended to provide human geneticists and other biomedical researchers with guidance on selections of appropriate computational methods and...